Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

With all due respect, Minister, you didn't see the previous exchange, so I will give you the question that I asked and Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was exploring. We were exploring proposed subsection 129(ii) of the bill. It states:

the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth …

I finished exploring that—I got nowhere but I finished exploring it. I then asked: what are matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples? The response I was given by the minister was: they are matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I did not consider that to be adequate. So Senator Nampijinpa Price is now exploring that line of questioning in relation to the legal implications and the legal meaning of 'matters relating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples'. That is to put it into perspective for you.